Incontinence or Bladder Control Problems After Pregnancy
Question: Hi YouTips4U, I have a question about bladder control. My baby is 6 months old now and sometimes I still have problems with bladder control, especially when I exercise. Will this ever go away and what can I do about it? YouTips4U Answer: Thanks so much for your great question. In all likelihood you will get over this problem. Postpartum stress incontinence can usually be remedied with exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles. These exercises are called Kegels. You can do them several times throughout the day and no one will ever know. To do them, you tighten your pelvic floor muscles momentarily as if you were trying to stop urinating midstream. Try to do at least 50 each day. After I gave birth to my first child, the nurse told me to start doing them, right then and there, an hour after delivery. She said I should plan on doing them for the rest of my life. I still do them periodically a...